On Fri, 2002-03-29 at 14:06, Guy Zelck wrote: > I've installed it and ran it for 6H without any errors popping up. I > personally don't believe it's the memory which is in fault. > As if the devil was involved I had a freeze again just after boot-up. I > followed the Alt-SysRq-... sequence to finally reboot but then again I > had my KDE files corrupted. What I don't understand is how that crap is > written to my config files. If xfs writes what it finds in its xfs log > then it would mean that the xfs log contains rubbish. How did this > rubbish get in there or is it taking a wrong part of the log. > > Is the xfs that's used in md8.2 still the same version or is it a higher > version? Maybe upgrade? > > When I boot up the only fsck I ever notice amongst Aurora's output is > the one of my /boot partition (ext2), is this supposed to be like that? > I suppose Fsck in rc.sysinit just re-directs the output to syslog. > > Guy.
Guy, The SCSI bus chain needs to be terminated on both ends. By that I mean that the adapter itself needs some termination (usually set to automatic in the bios in the case of the Adaptec models (I have an Adaptec 3940U dual channel PCI installed in this machine btw). In the hopes of giving you some new information, assuming there are no devices OUTSIDE the adapter, i.e. something like a scanner hooked to the outside port, as I said the adapter should be set to automatic termination; however you still have the other end of the scsi bus to worry about, and that is inside the machine. Termination must be installed on the hard drive (or device) FURTHEST from the card. I assume here that you know when I say "furthest" I don't mean physically but instead with regards to the SCSI cable. All other termination on other devices except the adaptec card must be removed. The correct procedure is to check all your devices. This includes your 2940. I think you said that you don't have access to the Adaptec bios anymore. There happens to be a "quiet" option in these cards that turns off the verbose bios access message when the card bios is loading. HOWEVER THE OPTION IS STILL THERE. This may be your problem. When you see the scsi bios init message, go ahead and hit ctrl-a. Even though there was no ctrl-a message you will still get into the bios screen for the Adaptec card. At this point you can check your settings. Improper termination can lead to all sorts of very wierd problems. HTH, LX -- ��������������������������������������������������� Kernel 2.4.8-26mdk Mandrake Linux 8.1 Enlightenment 0.16.5 Evolution 1.02 Registered Linux User #268899 http://counter.li.org/ ��������������������������������������������������� _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
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